Fun game because both teams sucked
Sharks should have won by 40 but blew so many opportunities. Cowboys were awful. Drinkwater with an all-time stinker. Just think the cows chose him over hammer
Cronulla are going to he destroyed by Penrith next week. The NRL is broken
Two Manly players knocked out in the first 20 seconds of the game. Both won’t return me thinks.
And so the Top 4 play the prelims.
The Roosters showed more than i expected against an admittedly very average Manly side, and just maybe they can finally win against melbourne and break the expected GF.
Cronulla would have to go up several levels to beat play-offs Panthers.
To be fair on Manly, those early head knocks do impact the team, but still, was almost like last week was their final.
If Penrith allow the Sharks to get off to their regular fast start it will be interesting, else likely business as usual.
Who would have thought a possible Sydney team winning AFL and Melbourne team winning NRL in the same year. Both a good shot.
Expected NRL final still looking likely
Not a Broncos fan by any stretch of the imagination (despite them being my team until the Warriors came in to being)
but
i hope for their sake this doesn't Bradbury T-Baz in to the coaching seat.
@mariner4life said in NRL 2024:
Not a Broncos fan by any stretch of the imagination (despite them being my team until the Warriors came in to being)
but
i hope for their sake this doesn't Bradbury T-Baz in to the coaching seat.
Sorry, who? (I think I may know but don't want to appear a bigger ignoramus than I already do ... )
Trent Barrett, who has coached (and been sacked by) Manly, the Bulldogs and the Eels
for a combined record of 38-83
lol
@mariner4life said in NRL 2024:
Not a Broncos fan by any stretch of the imagination (despite them being my team until the Warriors came in to being)
but
i hope for their sake this doesn't Bradbury T-Baz in to the coaching seat.
just choked on my coffee, surely T Baz couldn't fluke that one
well, he's a signed assistant coach with "head coaching experience"
i mean, i like to think not, but...
wow, still could be an Arthur or a Maguire I suppose. Top job will be interesting though, Broncos would be a sought after role
@African-Monkey said in NRL 2024:
Not many options out there in fairness, unless you take a punt on a rookie.
I reckon the average punter could achieve Trent's numbers.
@antipodean said in NRL 2024:
@African-Monkey said in NRL 2024:
Not many options out there in fairness, unless you take a punt on a rookie.
I reckon the average punter could achieve Trent's numbers.
i was going to make a joke about Benji and the Tigers until i realised that TBaz won 40% of his games at Manly with DCE, prime Turbos, young AFB and Walker, prime Marty Taupau.
Yeah, they could have coached themselves to 10 wins
gee the Broncos really resent the Lions being in the GF tomorrow
First they sack their coach, and now Mam and Walsh are in trouble in Bali
interesting hearing from Broncos insiders, Madge is preferred target with Ennis and Teo as assistants. Not a group I would have necessarily associated together
@bayimports said in NRL 2024:
interesting hearing from Broncos insiders, Madge is preferred target with Ennis and Teo as assistants. Not a group I would have necessarily associated together
Teo did play under Maguire when Souths went all the way in 2014, and Ennis is always around teams in some capacity.
@African-Monkey said in NRL 2024:
@bayimports said in NRL 2024:
interesting hearing from Broncos insiders, Madge is preferred target with Ennis and Teo as assistants. Not a group I would have necessarily associated together
Teo did play under Maguire when Souths went all the way in 2014, and Ennis is always around teams in some capacity.
That makes sense, forgot about the Souths link
Melbourne's recruitment strategy pays off bigly as Grant, Munster, Hughes and Papi all have massive games as they score 48 points in a preliminary final to book a date in the GF.
Score doesn't tell the story of the Roosters giving them and almighty fright to be within 6 early in the 2nd half.
Pretty fucking fun game of footy. Melbourne in this form will be hard for even Penrith to handle.
NAS will be hoping for GF leniency or he's watching the game with the rest of us
@mariner4life said in NRL 2024:
NAS will be hoping for GF leniency or he's watching the game with the rest of us
Don't Origin rules apply to GF?
I think he plays, think if it wasn’t NAS it doesn’t even get 10 in the bin, so many of those shoulder contacts slipping up not even given this year
@bayimports said in NRL 2024:
I think he plays, think if it wasn’t NAS it doesn’t even get 10 in the bin, so many of those shoulder contacts slipping up not even given this year
I think it's 50/50, it's a chance for the Aussies to rub him out for the Pacific Cup.
@bayimports said in NRL 2024:
I think he plays, think if it wasn’t NAS it doesn’t even get 10 in the bin, so many of those shoulder contacts slipping up not even given this year
I think it's 50/50, it's a chance for the Aussies to rub him out for the Pacific Cup.
Looks like you’re right, they gave him 4 weeks
Penrith make tough work of Cronulla but the chin pulls out the big plays to get them there.
We get the grand final we all predicted but picking a winner here will be tough.
It makes you wonder if the Broncos management had planned to bring in Madge before sacking Walters. Maguire released from NSWRL role and said to be announced within days as head coach by Broncos
i reckon it's a decent signing. By all accounts he's pretty firm, and a few of the youngsters at Brisbane need to pull their heads in
@bayimports said in NRL 2024:
@bayimports said in NRL 2024:
I think he plays, think if it wasn’t NAS it doesn’t even get 10 in the bin, so many of those shoulder contacts slipping up not even given this year
I think it's 50/50, it's a chance for the Aussies to rub him out for the Pacific Cup.
Looks like you’re right, they gave him 4 weeks
In all honesty I was surprised when I actually got round to watching the game, in a league context it didn't even look binnable let alone worthy of a suspension.
@mariner4life said in NRL 2024:
i reckon it's a decent signing. By all accounts he's pretty firm, and a few of the youngsters at Brisbane need to pull their heads in
He's extremely tough with his training regimes, probably too tough for this generation. Even his likely assistant Ben Te'o refused to take part in some of the training sessions back at Souths, saying he'd happily be dropped if it goes any further, which forced Madge to go easier on the players.
I feel like this is either gonna be a masterstroke appointment, or it could go horribly wrong.
@bayimports said in NRL 2024:
@bayimports said in NRL 2024:
I think he plays, think if it wasn’t NAS it doesn’t even get 10 in the bin, so many of those shoulder contacts slipping up not even given this year
I think it's 50/50, it's a chance for the Aussies to rub him out for the Pacific Cup.
Looks like you’re right, they gave him 4 weeks
In all honesty I was surprised when I actually got round to watching the game, in a league context it didn't even look binnable let alone worthy of a suspension.
thats exactly why I thought he might get off, looks like theyre rubbing him out for the Internationals as well
@African-Monkey said in NRL 2024:
@mariner4life said in NRL 2024:
i reckon it's a decent signing. By all accounts he's pretty firm, and a few of the youngsters at Brisbane need to pull their heads in
He's extremely tough with his training regimes, probably too tough for this generation. Even his likely assistant Ben Te'o refused to take part in some of the training sessions back at Souths, saying he'd happily be dropped if it goes any further, which forced Madge to go easier on the players.
I feel like this is either gonna be a masterstroke appointment, or it could go horribly wrong.
Agree, sort of feel, if the players buy in to this, it will be a master stroke, but if they dont player revolt on the cards
not too much wrong with the NRL awards.
Favourite won. Probably closer than it should have been.
Team of the year looked pretty much bang on as well.
Try of the year a heartbreaker for Warriors fans
Tackle of the year Deardon's run down try saver on Selwyn Cobbo
@bayimports Sounds like a good assessment. Brisbane will have to offload a fair amount of cattle to acquaint Walsh and Mam. Time will tell, I only see the Broncs loosing much of their roster to cater for a couple of guys on big money.
The Broncos are in a spot with their roster nearly every other club would kill to be in. Their holes aren't that big, they have youth, and the ability to score.
Madge needs to make them far more defensively resilient. "I'll just score more than you" is not a long term plan.
You won't see a better middle 1-2 punch than Haas and Carrigan, they need to build the rest of that rotation. They do have a couple of good youngsters to help our. Not relying on those two to play huge minutes would help.
Their back row is ok. Riki reverting to his 2022 form means maybe he loses his spot. Again, tehy have cheap youth to fill in. Piakura continuing to develop, and staying fit would help.
Their spine isn't bad. Walsh needs taming, but you cannot beat pace. Mam is as good a running half as there is. Hooker will be better now that Billy Walters isn't playing all the time. Reynolds won't stay fit, but they need to develop an organising half, and there aren't many in a better spot to do that than Reynolds.
They do need to solve Selwyn Cobbo, and either get him motivated or move him on (i would do everything to keep him on board he's so talented).
If you offered me a straight swap of the Warriors roster and the Broncos roster, including the cap headaches, i would bite your hand off.
Walters not likely to stay after the treatment of his father. Cobbo and Staggs would need to stay. November 1 will be critical. See what happens. If Madge does gel with the club, it could be an awesome move, could go either way, he is a Blue going into enemy territory. I just see the future as the Dolphins, if they can pick up a few Broncos, their rise will only continue.
Walters not likely to stay after the treatment of his father. Cobbo and Staggs would need to stay. November 1 will be critical. See what happens. If Madge does gel with the club, it could be an awesome move, could go either way, he is a Blue going into enemy territory. I just see the future as the Dolphins, if they can pick up a few Broncos, their rise will only continue.
Actually think the young kid Blake Mozer was excellent in the limited minutes he got, if Walters leaves I dont think it is the end of the world for Brisbane
@mariner4life said in NRL 2024:
not too much wrong with the NRL awards.
Favourite won. Probably closer than it should have been.
Team of the year looked pretty much bang on as well.Try of the year a heartbreaker for Warriors fans
Tackle of the year Deardon's run down try saver on Selwyn Cobbo
only thing that would have been wrong is Teddy winning by a couple of points after Jerome got that minus 6. thankfully that didn't play out
